A LOUIS XVI TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH, SYCAMORE AND MARQUETRY OCCASIONAL TABLE
A LOUIS XVI TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH, SYCAMORE AND MARQUETRY OCCASIONAL TABLE

STAMPED 'DESHAYES' AND 'JME', LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A LOUIS XVI TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH, SYCAMORE AND MARQUETRY OCCASIONAL TABLE
STAMPED 'DESHAYES' AND 'JME', LATE 18TH CENTURY
The rectangular top inlaid with various woods, with a scene depicting Montgolfier's baloon and with figures watching within a landscape, on square tapering legs ending in bronze sabots, stamped to center of underside rear rail
29 in. high (73.5 cm.) high, 30 in. (75 cm.) wide, 19 in. (48.25 cm.) deep

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Louis Deshayes, maître in 1756.

Louis Deshayes was established on the rue des Vieux-Augustins, and was still active during the beginning of the Revolution.

This panel depicts the first successful hot-air balloon, designed in the late eighteenth century by Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, who in 1783, constructed a hot-air balloon 110 feet in circumfrence. It ascended to 6,000 feet, sailed for ten minutes, and eventually landed over a mile away. The first manned flight of the Montgolfier's balloon occurred on November 21, 1783, when physician Jean-Frandôis Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes, an infantry major, were kept aloft for twenty-five minutes.